Utilizing the diffusion-to-noise ratio to optimize magnetic resonance diffusion tensor acquisition strategies for improving measurements of diffusion anisotropy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1056-1065

  Armitage, P A ^a   Bastin, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion anisotropy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion to noise ratio; Magnetic resonance imaging; Optimized acquisition

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TENSORS;

ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS; DIFFUSION ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; NOISE RATIO; OPTIMIZED ACQUISITION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0035017270     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1140     Document Type: Article

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